id: 97141
accession number: 1916.780
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Sketch for a Ceiling, 1750s. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770). Oil on canvas; framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.780
title: Sketch for a Ceiling
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creation date: 1750s
creation date earliest: 1750
creation date latest: 1759
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creditline: Holden Collection
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culture: Italy, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 18th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Inaugural Exhibition
opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00
Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00
Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates
opening date: 1978-01-08T05:00:00
The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (organizer) (January 8-February 19, 1978); Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, OH, Springfield, OH (March 19-May 7, 1978).
title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism
opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00
Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection," catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vII, no.10 (October 1912), cat. no. 26 (author, bryson Burroughs).', 'opening_date': '1912-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, 1916: "The Inaugrual Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 37.', 'opening_date': '1916-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversry Exhibition," cat. no. 37.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition" cat. no. 108.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Birmingham, Alabama, Museum of Fine Art, 1978: "The Tiepolos, Painters to Princes and Prelates," ct. no. 22, illus. p. 79; Springfield (Mass.) Museum of Fine Arts,', 'opening_date': '1978-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, October 29-December 15, 1991: "Artin the Age of Mozart,"', 'opening_date': '1991-10-29T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Miner K. Kellogg (1814-1889), Paris
date: 1858
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Mrs. Liberty E. Holden
date: 1884
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Holden Collection
date: 1916
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1858 Miner K. Kellogg, 1814-1889 (Paris, France)
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1884-1916 Mrs.Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 424; Mentioned: p. 425
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Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
page number: Mentioned: p. 35-36, cat. no. 38
url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n45
Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
page number: Referenced: cat. no. 85, p 69, Reproduced
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_full.tif